PHOTOS: “The Princess and The Pea” at Penacook Elementary School

Madison Brown, 7, waits backstage for her cue during a dress rehearsal for the "Princess and the Pea" at Pencaook Elementary on January 18, 2013. Brown played one of the castle folk. The production is part of the Chidren's Stage Adventures company's week-long theater residency at the school. Auditions were held Monday and 71 students spent the week, minus the snow day on Wednesday, preparing for the performances Friday afternoon for the school and Friday evening for the community. The performance is a musical version of the classic fairy tale where the prince comes of age and goes on a quest mandated by his parents to find a princess to marry.

After receiving their costumes for the first time, students playing the ladies-in-waiting gather during a dress rehearsal for the "Princess and the Pea" at Pencaook Elementary on January 18, 2013. The production is part of the Chidren's Stage Adventures company's week-long theater residency at the school. Auditions were held Monday and 71 students spent the week, minus the snow day on Wednesday, preparing for the performances Friday afternoon for the school and Friday evening for the community. The performance is a musical version of the classic fairy tale where the prince comes of age and goes on a quest mandated by his parents to find a princess to marry.

Kyle Aarons, one of the traveling actors with the Children's Stage Adventure, guides the actors playing fireflies during the "Princess and the Pea" dress rehersal at Pencaook Elementary on January 18, 2013.

Timothy Restall, 11, curls up on the stage for a scene where his character, the prince, dreams during a dress rehearsal for the "Princess and the Pea" at Pencaook Elementary on January 18, 2013. The production is part of the Chidren's Stage Adventures company's week-long theater residency at the school. Auditions were held Monday and 71 students spent the week, minus the snow day on Wednesday, preparing for the performances Friday afternoon for the school and Friday evening for the community. The performance is a musical version of the classic fairy tale where the prince comes of age and goes on a quest mandated by his parents to find a princess to marry.

Timothy Restall, 11, curls up on the stage for a scene where his character, the prince, dreams during a dress rehearsal for the "Princess and the Pea" at Pencaook Elementary on January 18, 2013. The production is part of the Chidren's Stage Adventures company's week-long theatre residency at the school. Auditions were held Monday and students spent the week, minus the snow day on Wednesday, preparing for the performances on Friday afternoon for the school and Friday evening for the community. The performance is a musical version of the classic fairy tale where the prince comes of age and goes on a quest mandated by his parents to find a princess to marry.

It’s the classic fairy tale of a pea and a prince who is desperate to marry a real princess, and this past week 71 Penacook Elementary School students prepared for a musical version of “The Princess and The Pea”; auditions were held Monday and, despite Wednesday’s snow day, performances were planned yesterday afternoon for the school and last night for the community. It wasn’t until yesterday morning that the students were handed their costumes and finally saw their characters. “It’s transformational,” said Kathy Bush, a second-grade teacher at the school and president of Children’s Stage Adventures, which ran the weeklong theater residency at the school.